Fantasia Grand Award ふぁんたじあたいしょう
Edition 24 (2012, held 2 times in year)
Winners
7 peopleHumanity lives in floating cities after the surface is lost to armored insects. Kanata Age, scorned as a traitor, becomes the instructor of the repeatedly defeated E601 squad and must train three difficult young candidates.
A despised instructor gives a losing squad of girls the chance to begin a comeback.
A silver-prize and readers' prize work from the second half of the 24th Fantasia Prize. The title suggests a battle fantasy centered on armored spiritual equipment, but no reliable standalone or renamed publication could be confirmed.
The award record includes a readers' prize, but a published bibliographic record could not be established.
At East Cross Academy, where magic, spiritual powers, psychic abilities, and modern weapons intersect, Sho Kushiki, elite magician Ririka Nei, and the mysterious Lady are drawn into a crisis. The novel is a densely packed supernatural school battle story.
Before a boy who only wants youth, magic, powers, and modern weapons all begin to move at once.
Shinya Niimi works for Marunagedo, a slightly illegal problem-solving agency in Shinjuku. Asked to deal with a headless body in an upscale apartment and find the missing resident, he is drawn into an old curse and a secret tied to himself.
An under-the-table job becomes a youth suspense story involving a headless body and a centuries-old curse.
A finalist in the second half of the 24th Fantasia Prize. Award lists confirm the title and author, but no standalone book publication could be found.
It is recorded as a finalist, but no publication record could be confirmed.
A fantasy about a strange train that pulls in people trying to go to another world, and the characters tasked with sending them back. A later serialized version under the same title is available on Kakuyomu.
A story about returning people who stray onto a train bound for another world.
A finalist in the second half of the 24th Fantasia Prize, listed as Hoshikawa Quintet! by Kano Izumi. No standalone publication could be confirmed.
The title remains in award lists, but publication as a book could not be confirmed.